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The Florists^ Review 



^EI'XEMBEB 6, 1917. 



Greenhouse Heating. 



Subscribers are invited to write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Review to make a choice of ap- 

 paratus for you. The greenhouse heating 

 equipment advertised in this paper is, we 

 believe, the best for the trade to buy, 

 and each article the best in the special 

 field of its adaptation. 



SAVE COAL NOW THE CRY. 



Every manager of a greenhouse estab- 

 lishment, in which coal is a prime neces- 

 sity, will see the trade's great interest 

 in a campaign for fuel economy, the 

 first gun of which was fired last week 

 by a committee of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce of the United States, cooperating 

 with the Council of National Defense. 

 Heretofore, the committee declares, the 

 man who used more coal than he needed 

 might feel that he caused no loss except 

 to his own bank account. Few were in- 

 fluenced by thought of conserving the 

 world's supply of coal. Today coal is 

 a sinew of war, is the conclusion, and 

 he who unnecessarily reduces the coun- 

 try's available stock of coal may curtail 

 the nation's energy in the great conflict. 

 In the great concentration of national 

 energy toward prosecuting the war, men 

 are not available to open new coal mines 

 to meet extravagant needs. Transporta- 

 tion facilities are burdened to the limit 

 of capacity. These and other factors 

 establish a definite limit to the amount 

 of coal which can be made available 

 for use during the war. 



Another important pliase of the situa- 

 tion comes from the control of coal 

 prices by the government. An effect of 

 such price regulation may be reduction 

 in output. 



"Opposed to tliese limitations on the 

 available supply of coal is the greatest 

 demand for coal ever known," the com- 

 mittee continues. "The railroads are 

 requiring more coal than ever before. 

 The war and its stimulation of indus- 

 try has called upon our factories for an 

 output beyond all previous peak loads. 

 Our allies depend upon us for coal. 

 Good use can be made of all available 

 coal. 



"Under these circumstances all busi- 

 ness men are called upon to give thought 

 to avoiding the waste of coal. Let every 

 man consider liow his coal requirements 

 can be reduced. Let all organizations of 

 business men engage in a vigorous effort 

 to promote the discussion of wasteful 

 motliods in coal consumption and the 

 adoption in all boiler plants of those 

 stoking methods which produce power 

 without waste of coal." 



Public obligation and selfish interest 

 coniVtine to make this the time for busi- 

 ness men to undertake the long delayed 

 concerted effort to improve boiler house 

 practice, the Bulletin says. "No man 

 today can say whoso requirements may 

 remain unsatisfied if the available sup- 

 ply of coal is distributed without meet- 

 ing all requirements." 



Tlie Bureau of Mines has made a 

 study for years of stoking methods. 

 Elal)orate investigations and experi- 

 ments have been conducted and the re- 

 sults of what has been done are avail- 

 able to every user of coal. The director 

 of the Bureau of Mines desires that 

 users of coal call upon this division of 



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